Feb
3
I knew this was going to happen.
wow. this is too intense.
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Posts tagged vietnam
Aug
4
Thích Quảng Đức immolated himself in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Roman Catholic government led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
His last words:
“Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngô Đình Diệm to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organise in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism.”
Jul
24
Chomsky on China and Communism in SE Asia, circa 1969
Authoritarianism and repression existing in tandem with democratization
@3:43
Don’t know why the youtube link isn’t cuing up to the spot I’ve set
Jun
29
“
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
But they ask — and rightly so — what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.
Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
”Martin Luther King, Jr. (via socialuprooting)
A passage from one of his greatest speeches, delivered at the Riverside Church in Harlem in 1967, exactly one year before he was killed. This is the Dr. King white folks want buried and forgotten, the Dr. King who did not condemn violent resistance, in fact siding with those who throw Molotov cocktails. All they want to remember is one speech in 1963 and nothing beyond that.
(via zuky)
(via jayaprada)
Jun
22
gotdamn, noam was a looker.
Damn straight
Balla pipe.
Middle picture must be him reading Foucault on Magritte’s painting “This is not a pipe.”
Chomsky sayz: “Fuck you, this is a pipe. I have no problem with making clear statements about the world. Get real.”
What is that division?
What do you call the two camps of people:
One who is ok with making clear “objective” statements about the world, asserting things and being ideological… Enlightenment people
The other who is skeptical, suspicious of “objective” statements as dogmatic and flawed… Post-modern types
What do you call it? Philosophy student somewhere, help me please!
(via noam-chomsky)
Jun
10
Vivek Chibber: "Cause or Effect? Socialism and Economic Development"
More Havens Center podcasts… Vivek Chibber slam dunks the historical issues of fusing developmental projects with socialist experiments in “backward countries”, i.e. China, Russia, Vietnam. Straight forward, hard hitting, (and pessimistic) analysis.
VIVEK CHIBBER (Ph.D. Sociology, UW-Madison) is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton University Press, 2003), which has received numerous awards, including the 2006 Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association (honorable mention) and the 2005 Barrington Moore Jr. Prize of the ASA’s Comparative and Historical Sociology Section. He is completing a book titled, “Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capitalism,” due out in Winter 2011 by Verso. The book is a critique of postcolonial theory, both as an explanatory framework and as a form of radical thought.
